Two weeks passed after the vote, and for the first time since Ivy had walked through the doors of Voss Global, life at the office began to feel almost ordinary. Nathaniel kept his distance, his influence visibly diminished, though nobody made the mistake of assuming he'd given up entirely. Some threats simply went quiet for a while before finding a new shape to wear.
Ivy settled back into her work with a lightness she hadn't felt in months, the transition project fully wrapped up, a new assignment already waiting for her on a different client account. Marcus stopped by her desk more often now, treating her less like a curiosity and more like someone who'd genuinely earned her place on the floor.
"You've become something of a legend around here," he told her one afternoon, dropping into h
